Summer Sale on Lilia Sequences

[sean]

SUMMER SALE from Lilia!

Lilia has lowered the prices on all of her existing sequences. She has created lite versions of many of the more intensive sequence. She has created new sequences.

There used to be 7 sequences in the store, now there are 22.
Nearly every sequence has been discounted.
Summer sale ends Sept 12th. If you purchases a sequence that has been discounted by $10 or more, send an email to lilia@meighan.net. She said she will give credit for the difference.

Lilia has created a second version of many sequences, the "lite"sequences.
Instead of 90 models, she is going against 40. The eaves, arches, yard borders, north  poles and icicles are all in model groups in the lite sequences. This allows Lilia to sequence faster hence a lower price.
Lite sequences will NOT have the timing track that Lilia spends a few hours creating. If you are just importing in the sequence , and do not plan on editing it , the lite sequences should work fine. The Full sequences will have effects across all 90 models and will have the timing track.

Lilia store is www.nutcracker123.com/store
All of Lilia videos are found here: https://vimeo.com/album/3888694

Finally, there is a summary sheet showing prices and links to videos
http://xlights.org/Price_List.pdf


         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
         

[jnealand]

Sean please put the pdf up in landscape mode so the link is not cutoff.  Or reduce the L/R margins.

[sean]

i will repost but are not all the vimeo links working? i dont see the whole link in the pdf but i can click on them and it jumps to vimeo

[jnealand]

I'm not clicking on anything, I just want to print off the list for reference and make notes as to my interest.

[sean]

ok, landscape version posted

[Phrog30]

SUMMER SALE from Lilia!

Lilia has lowered the prices on all of her existing sequences. She has created lite versions of many of the more intensive sequence. She has created new sequences.

There used to be 7 sequences in the store, now there are 22.
Nearly every sequence has been discounted.
Summer sale ends Sept 12th. If you purchases a sequence that has been discounted by $10 or more, send an email to lilia@meighan.net. She said she will give credit for the difference.

Lilia has created a second version of many sequences, the "lite"sequences.
Instead of 90 models, she is going against 40. The eaves, arches, yard borders, north  poles and icicles are all in model groups in the lite sequences. This allows Lilia to sequence faster hence a lower price.
Lite sequences will NOT have the timing track that Lilia spends a few hours creating. If you are just importing in the sequence , and do not plan on editing it , the lite sequences should work fine. The Full sequences will have effects across all 90 models and will have the timing track.

Lilia store is www.nutcracker123.com
All of Lilia videos are found here: https://vimeo.com/album/3888694

Finally, there is a summary sheet showing prices and links to videos
http://xlights.org/Price_List.pdf

The store link is incorrect.

It may be beneficial to post the specific props/elements that you have.  For example, while some of the effects look great on your pixel trees, what are your pixel trees... 12x50, 16x50, 20x100, etc.?  Some effects may look good on your props, but not others.

James

[sean]

Here are the models and background image that all the sequences are created against.

When you are doing mapping, remember the best mapping file will map all 90 of our models some place. what to do when you have 4 floods and we have 12? you have no icicles or snowflakes and we have 20? Create a shadow model.
For example i had one person with one eave line across width of his house. i subdivided his eave into 10 eaves. i also created 10 icicles. the channel range is exactly like the original eave model.

now i decide which element will take priority, I put icicles lower than in the sequencer tab so that they will overwrite eaves if there were effects on both eaves and icicles at same time.

if you didnt map the icicles then when a sequence is only doing something on icicles you end up with a blank space.

[Phrog30]

What I meant was display this on the website. How would someone wanting to purchase a sequence know to come to a post in a forum?

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[t.jo13t]

She has done a great job. I have a couple of questions, I did not see a matrix on your display. I thought you of all people would have one?  What about some halloween sequences for the people that use it for testing getting ready for christmas

Joe

[sean]

I do not have a matrix, lilia does not like the look. We do have a projector on the garage door.
You can take lilia's tree2 megateree and put it on a matrix.

Lilia has started doing halloween now
i think
hes a pirate from Pirates of the Caribbean
Thriller
Ghostbusters
Nightmare before christmas
not sure what others

[CW]

Hey Sean,
I used the file you gave to us who went the Vegas class and created my show with your elements rather then mapping to my show. I felt it was quicker as so much of my show is changing every year toi more pixels. It is not compete as I have not  determined what to do with the snow flakes or Holdman star yet, but I am impressed with a quick layout went and how good it looked when I played Russian Dance. I just moved off to the side the items not using yet.  We have several items in common, north poles, small arches, horz and vert lines. I am happy as my sequencing was not getting done. I purchased a couple more sequences.

Will the lite versions work without changes on the full version layout with all it's models?
Thanks,
Craig

[sean]

yes, lite and full have the same models.
The difference is lite versions had more effects across model groups (Arches vs arch1, arch2, arch3, Eaves vs eave 1,eave2)

Using more model groups allowed Lilia to finish quicker.
One other difference Lite version do not have the timing track. If you are not going to modify Lilia's sequences this doesnt matter.
You could also go back and recreate the timing track by setting timing marks at the beginning of every effect/

Since it takes her 1-2 hours to create the timing track she only includes those in the full version.

I would also believe you should be at least version 2016.43. I would suggest always use our latest code. There will be another production release in the next 4-8 weeks. A production release is just where we pause and focus mostly on bugs not on enhancements.

And for mapping, you really want to map everything she has.
For snowflakes, icicles you can make shadow models by creating a  model that overlaps an existing model.

For example, you have eaves that go channels 1-700, Lilia has 7 snowflakes.

Your eaves 1-700
u make shadow models that overlap
snowflake1 1-100
snowflake2 101-200
...
snowflake7 601-700

now put snowflakes lower than eaves in your display element list. If lilia is putting effects on eaves and on snowflakes, snowflakes will show.

doing this for rgb floods, iciles, verticals, snowflakes, roof star .etc. makes sure that if she has a part where only  one element is on you see something on your home rather than blank.

[CW]

Thank you for explaining the shadow effect Sean, that makes sense.

Another question, so for icicles I few less runs on my layout then you do 5 vs 9.  I put yours in secession so as to use them all, I understand that.  This is just hypothetical, When I setup the hardware, and I use 5 control points or start channels and you have 9, does that cause grief? I assume I can just set each of the 5 to run into the extra 4 on the hardware side.

Craig

[ronchazin]

Any timeline on when the Thriller or Ghostbusters sequences might be posted?

[reelpilot]

I got a couple of sequences to jumpstart my programming and get used to xlights after coming over from vixen and I've noticed something unusual. I unzipped the sequence files and pointed xlights to that directory. When I open the sequence and play it, both the model preview and house preview do not light up. I have found that if I individually click on an effect, it will then display on both previews. Granted I will never actually run a sequence this way as I will create a mapping file and to place the effects onto my own house, but I thought xlights would still show the sequence fully if you opened it as is. I'm trying to build an xlights understanding on what tools are used to make certain effects to aid in the creation of my own sequences. Literally clicking on an effect on every Lilia model to get them to show in the previews seems like there is some problem or something else that I'm not doing right.